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Artist: The Crossing, Donald Nally
Title: Carthage
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Navona
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz
Total Time: 00:53:42
Total Size: 253 / 913 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Journey
02. Carthage
03. Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus I. Kyrie
04. Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus II. Gloria
05. Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus III. Credo
06. Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus IV. Sanctus
07. Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus V. Agnus Dei
08. Spiralling Ecstatically
09. Two Arms of the Harbor
10. One with the Darkness, One with the Light
GRAMMY-winning chamber choir The Crossing is back with their latest installment in a multi-album series with Navona Records. CARTHAGE comes on the heels of the 2020 GRAMMY-nominated album THE ARC IN THE SKY, released last summer. In this latest offering, artistic director Donald Nally leads the choir through six striking pieces by composer James Primosch that confront the most elemental questions of Western philosophy.
CARTHAGE opens with Journey, a solemn meditation in which the men of The Crossing chant text based on the work of 13th-century monk and mystic Meister Eckhart: “There is a journey you must take./It is a journey without destination./There is no map./Your soul will lead you./And you can take nothing with you.” Next comes the title track, Carthage, on prose by Marilynne Robinson from her novel Housekeeping, which employs the devastated city of Carthage as a metaphor for desire and imagination: “For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it.” Composer James Primosch evokes images of once-fertile fields now salted and wasted, with Nally teasing out the dynamic subtleties of a work that is nevertheless full of hope and rebirth.
Following is Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus. Here, four soloists sing the Latin Mass texts, while the main choir sings Denise Levertov’s cycle of poems which gives the work its title. In pulling together these texts, Primosch celebrates the feast of St. Thomas Didymus—better known as “doubting Thomas”—plumbing the depths between unbelief and faith in which true spirituality so often resides. The ancient texts are strangely illuminated by the highs and lows of Levertov’s journey. The album closes with One with the Darkness, One with the Light, a setting of poetry by Wendell Berry. True to its title, the music employs cascading harmonic textures to explore the tension between light and dark, waking and sleeping, life and death.
CARTHAGE is a cohesive artwork that considers the most fundamental questions of human existence with the reverent wonder of monastic mysticism. While the music does not attempt to answer these unanswerable questions, it offers a sense of fellowship with the thinkers who pondered them long before, as well as with the singers whose voices fill this album.
艺术家：“跨越”合唱团（The Crossing）、唐纳德·纳利（Donald Nally）
专辑名称：《迦太基》（Carthage）
发行年份：2020年
厂牌：纳沃纳（Navona）
音乐类型：古典音乐
音质：FLAC无损格式 / FLAC 24比特 - 96.0千赫兹
总时长：53分42秒
总大小：253兆字节 / 913兆字节
网站：专辑预览
曲目列表
01. 《旅程》
02. 《迦太基》
03. 《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》：第一部分，垂怜经
04. 《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》：第二部分，荣耀经
05. 《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》：第三部分，信经
06. 《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》：第四部分，圣哉经
07. 《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》：第五部分，羔羊经
08. 《狂喜地螺旋上升》
09. 《港口的双臂》
10. 《与黑暗合一，与光明合一》
格莱美奖获奖室内合唱团“跨越”合唱团带着他们与纳沃纳唱片公司合作的多专辑系列中的最新作品回归。《迦太基》紧随去年夏天发行的获得2020年格莱美提名的专辑《天空中的弧线》之后推出。在这张最新专辑中，艺术总监唐纳德·纳利带领合唱团演绎了作曲家詹姆斯·普里莫施（James Primosch）的六首引人注目的作品，这些作品直面西方哲学中最基本的问题。
《迦太基》以《旅程》开篇，这是一首庄严的冥想曲，“跨越”合唱团的男成员们吟唱着基于13世纪僧侣兼神秘主义者埃克哈特大师（Meister Eckhart）作品的歌词：“有一段旅程你必须踏上。/这是一段没有终点的旅程。/没有地图可循。/你的灵魂将引领你前行。/而且你无法携带任何东西。”接下来是同名曲目《迦太基》，歌词选自玛丽莲·罗宾逊（Marilynne Robinson）小说《管家》中的散文，她以被摧毁的迦太基城作为欲望和想象的隐喻：“因为渴望一只手抚摸自己的头发，几乎就等同于感受到了那只手的抚摸。”作曲家詹姆斯·普里莫施唤起了曾经肥沃如今却被撒盐荒废的田野的景象，而纳利则挖掘出了这部充满希望与重生的作品中微妙的动态变化。
接下来是《圣多马·迪迪莫斯日弥撒》。在这部作品中，四位独唱者演唱拉丁文的弥撒经文，而主合唱团则演唱丹妮丝·勒弗托夫（Denise Levertov）的组诗，这部作品也因此得名。通过将这些文本融合在一起，普里莫施庆祝了圣多马·迪迪莫斯（更广为人知的名字是“多疑的多马”）的节日，深入探究了不信与信仰之间的深度，而真正的灵性往往就存在于这两者之间。古老的经文在勒弗托夫起伏的旅程中以一种奇特的方式被照亮。专辑以《与黑暗合一，与光明合一》收尾，这部作品采用了温德尔·贝里（Wendell Berry）的诗歌。正如其标题所示，音乐运用了层叠的和声织体来探索光明与黑暗、清醒与沉睡、生与死之间的张力。
《迦太基》是一部连贯的艺术作品，它以修道院神秘主义的虔诚与好奇，思考着人类存在最基本的问题。虽然音乐并未试图回答这些无法回答的问题，但它让人感受到与那些早在很久以前就思考过这些问题的思想家们的共鸣，也让人感受到与这张专辑中献声的歌手们的共鸣。
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